once, when i was about 4, at a party my family had in the garden, a friend of my parents told me if i stare really hard at the tv aerial on the roof i could actually see all the Disney characters, ie Goofy and Donald Duck sitting up there. i honestly thought i could see them. it never ever occurred to me that they might not b there, and that by waving at them i would look deranged, so i carried on waving at television aerials right up until i was at least 12.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- That the trees made the wind by waving— diyjoe.com
- I used to think that the wind was caused by all the trees waving about.— dismal dunc
- Someone I know IRL used to believe that Goofy (Mickey Mouse's friend) was a walrusAnon
- i thought that "aromatic" duck was actually "asthmatic" duck.
poor thing...— rachael - I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.
— emily - I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab